Ash (Dragon Riders MC #3) - Savannah Rylan Page 0,15
that now. I closed my eyes and let the dipping and weaving of the motorcycle tell me what to do with my body. I drew in deep lungfuls of fresh air as we left my hometown—hell, my home state—and made our way south. Every once in a while, I took in my surroundings. The beauty of the woods just off the highways and the massive mansions we drove by as we cruised through some of the richer parts of towns. I never was one to want great, big things. Or expensive thing. Or even shiny things.
And Ash was all of those wrapped into one.
“All right, we’re here,” he said.
The first words he said to me the entire trip, and it was when his bike finally slowed to a stop. The ride seemed like it was over in the blink of an eye, and when I slid my helmet off, I found us smack-dab in the middle of the woods. Well, not really the woods. It seemed as if we were in some sort of clearing. In front of me was a very well-kept double-wide trailer with a beautiful wildflower meadow behind me. Surrounding trees came from every angle, and a shimmering, shining lake was about a quarter of a mile in the distance away.
“Where in the world are we?” I asked.
Ash slid off the bike. “This is my place.”
I blinked. “You live here.”
“Yep.”
“In the middle of a meadow.”
“Eh, it’s a decent plot of land.”
“It’s a wildflower meadow, Ash. With a lake.”
He nodded. “Nice fishing in the summer, too.”
I snickered. “So, you fish.”
“Yep.”
“Do you hunt?”
“Yep.”
“While you live out here in your secluded wildflower meadow?”
He shrugged. “Why not?”
I shook my head. “You’re something else, you know that?”
He paused. “I don’t get it.”
I giggled as I hopped off the bike and I wrestled my bags out of the compartments. But I didn’t even get them at my sides before Ash scooped them out of my grasp. He hoisted them beneath his arms and motioned with his head for me to follow, and my heart skipped a beat.
My ex really never did things like this for me.
“So, this is my place. You’re welcome to any of it, but I’ll show you where you’ll be staying.”
I pointed. “We aren’t going through the front door?”
He shook his head. “Nope.”
I followed him around the back of the house and found a beautiful concrete patio with gorgeous wicker furniture surrounding a fire pit. My jaw dropped open as I gazed over the backyard, my eyes sweeping over the pristine lake off in the distance. I couldn't imagine how much someone paid to live in a place like this. All alone, with no one around, and nothing but nature to keep someone company.
I found myself very jealous.
I could never have something like this.
“Hannah?”
“Hmm?” I asked as I turned around.
He pointed to a door. “This is your door. It comes right out to the balcony without having to come upstairs, and it leads right into your living room.”
I blinked. “I’m going to have a living room?”
“Yep. Come see.”
He opened the screened porch door and I quickly followed him inside. The quaint little living room had a small two-person dining table sitting by the window directly to my left. A small kitchenette with three barstools was bellied up to an elongated countertop in front of me. There were two couches and a recliner surrounding an electric fireplace and a flat-screen television mounted on top of the mantle. The plush carpet greeted me as Ash turned to the right, taking me down three little stairs.
And when he flipped on the light, my jaw dropped to the floor.
“What the fuck?” I asked.
Ash walked over to the king-sized bed. “You should be comfortable here until you find yourself a place. I know it’s kind of weird, having the toilet and the shower exposed to the bedroom. I haven’t gotten around to putting up a privacy wall yet.”
I blinked. “Wait, you added on this addition?”
He dropped my stuff next to the bed. “Nah. It came with my purchase. But it was pretty roughed-up when I found it. Took a couple of years to get it like this.”
“So, you remodeled it.”
“Essentially.”
“So, you hunt, you fish, you have your own place, and you’re a handyman.”
He nodded. “I guess.”
I snickered. “Whatever woman snatches you up better do whatever she can to keep you, I’ma tell you that.”
He chuckled, and the sound pulled me right to him. I wanted to hug him; I was so excited. There was no